Comments on: Image Alt Text Vs. Image Title : What’s the Difference?

By: Megan

Megan — Thu, 15 Sep 2011 20:13:33 +0000

Thank you for breaking down the difference between the two. I’ve been searching for that. I hope that this information is still correct since it is 3 years after the post.

By: Suren

Suren — Fri, 07 May 2010 11:43:07 +0000

hey ann it would be great help for me..well can u tell me what if i don't use title tag and focused more on alt tag would it effects traffic..as per image search.?

By: Suren

Suren — Fri, 07 May 2010 06:43:07 +0000

hey ann it would be great help for me..well can u tell me what if i don't use title tag and focused more on alt tag would it effects traffic..as per image search.?

By: Adina

Adina — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 18:01:56 +0000

Thank you for your article, is the first time when i understand that a title image is different than alt image. I understand what is the alt image now…but now i must learn what is the title image

By: crymealake

crymealake — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 12:11:31 +0000

I thought readers would be interested in an application called Alt&Title that applies missing alt and title attributes to applicable HTML tags. I have used it on hundreds of web pages and it has saved me many hours of work.

Give it a go. I hope you find it as useful as I have!

Here is the web page promoting it...

http://www.flysoftware.com/products/altandtitle...

By: Benito Aramando

Benito Aramando — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 12:14:12 +0000

@Monturi Crap:

Both attributes serve different purposes, so both will “last”. Alt is for when the *image* cannot be seen; title is additional descriptive or advisory information (for any element). Neither will be deprecated.

By: Monturi Crap

Monturi Crap — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 19:38:56 +0000

I wonder… At the end which atribute will last?
The alt or title.
Seems like title is becoming an substitute for the alt element.
It’s possible that at the next HTML revision to say that ALT is deprecated?

By: shubelal

shubelal — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 06:19:47 +0000

Thanks for helpful tips, but alt tag show as a pop text in IE only not in other

By: hmh

hmh — Mon, 08 Jun 2009 08:30:56 +0000

@Rezo
“Technical images” should be left with an empty alt-attribute to let text-to-speech browsers know that this image is unimportant.
Like this:

By: Rezo

Rezo — Thu, 28 May 2009 16:35:18 +0000

I agree with photos and other visually informative images — they need both alt and title attributes. But what about the technical images? Slices, separators, corners and plenty of other stuff which doesn’t need to be titled? IE pops up their alt, causing unwanted attention where it’s not needed. In fact, nobody needs them to have the alt attributes, but such images fail validation simply because they don’t have alt. It would be nice if IE stopped treating alt like titles, it would allow us to alt technical images too — just for the sake of validation.